Glassman, you are truly awesome at casting! I just gotta say that. I've been meandering through the different posts I've missed since posting here semi-regularly (about 5 months ago) and saw all your awesome work. Am I missing something though? I could have sworn I saw a guide or walkthrough on your casting techniques on here. Can you please direct me to it?

What I'm really interested in is how you cast halves and then put them together. I'm not sure if its in the guide or not.

Sorry about all the posts, but these are things that've been on my mind and needed to be asked.

How do you all (that cast) cast a torso that splits apart? I guess what I need to know is how you get all the parts to cast that are on the inside that hold the waist, arms, and head in place? I'm sorry if this has been asked before.

Ok, well let me ask this. I'm wanting to do the toy-part mold just like Glassman does in his tutorial on the iron-cow prod site. Is there any alternative to using the silicone rubber to make the mold, something extreme like sculpy, plumbers putty, or something like that? Or maybe plaster of paris?

I just didnt know if maybe the resin would rip up the other stuff when you go to pull it off.

OK, here is the run down on the torsol casting... you have to seperate the original torsol apart in order to cast both halves. You are actually making two molds, on for each half of the body. Almost nobody does this because the way that the halves are sealed. They are sonicly welded together, so the only way to seperate them is to cut them apart which in most cases destroys the body. What Glassman6, Bantha5 and my self do is make a two part mold of the body halves together. Now for those who do want to cast two halves, there are at least two safe ways to go about it. One way is to brush in the plastice resin into the mold in stages, causing a shell. The more palstic you put in, the thicker the shell. Once you have the desired thickness, clean the halves, place the limbs and head and glue the halves together. The other method is to pour liquid wax into the mold all the way to the edge. Let it cool and then put the two halves together. If they do not fit, shave off the excess until they fit. Now with a wax pen, start carving out the wax to hollow it out. Using old model kits, find a male and female peg that would make the locking mechanism. Fit the two halves again for one last alignment check and then make a new mold of the wax casting. From here you will make the plastic cast and then reassemble the figure. In either case, you are looking at a very labor intensive project and you probable only want to do a few important customs to venture into such a costly and time consumming project. This is a professional level stage of toy production and is normally way to advance for the casual hobbiest. But, if you have the time and money to invest into this area of toy production, you could turn out professional looking customs.

I hope this will help you and any others out there that maybe thinking about doing this.

Jedi_Master_Ben

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